Donald Trump Jr accused of killing protected bird in Venice lagoon Italian politician said a video posted online showed Trump Jr with a ruddy shelduck while on hunting trip.
Andrea Zanoni, the regional counsellor and environmentalist, said an online video from Field Ethos – published by Trump Jr and marketed as a “premier lifestyle publication for the unapologetic man” – showed “some people, including Donald Trump Jr, killing various ducks”.
“In the video, Trump Jr is seen with a ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) in the foreground – a duck that is very rare throughout Europe and protected by the European Union birds directive and Italian wildlife protection law,” Zanoni wrote on social media.
A politician from Italy’s Veneto region says he has reported Donald Trump Jr to the authorities for allegedly killing a protected species of duck while hunting in Venice lagoon.
Zanoni said the video was filmed recently in the Pierimpie’ valley south of the city of Venice, a special conservation area protected by European regulations that is known as the Middle Lower Lagoon of Venice.
